Synonyms for heal
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1. heal

   The transitive use of recover in the sense of cure, heal, etc., as in 2 Kings v, 6, "That thou mayest recover him of his leprosy," is now practically obsolete. The chief transitive use of recover is in the sense to obtain again after losing, regain, repossess, etc.; as, to recover stolen goods; to recover health. The intransitive sense, be cured, be restored, etc., is very common; as, to recover from sickness, terror, or misfortune.

   Synonyms:
   be cured, be healed, be restored, cure, reanimate, recover, recruit, recuperate, regain, repossess, restore, resume, retrieve

   Antonyms:
   die, fail, grow worse, relapse, sink

   Preposition:
   From; rarely of; (Law) to recover judgment against, to recover damages of or from a person.

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1. heal

   Synonyms:
   cure, repair, restore, remedy, assuage, cicatrize, reconcile

   Antonyms:
   harm, hurt, wound, pierce, ulcerate

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1. mend, healverb

   heal or recover

   "My broken leg is mending"

   Synonyms:
   repair, furbish up, bushel, restore, touch on, mend, fix, bring around, cure, doctor

2. healverb

   get healthy again

   "The wound is healing slowly"

   Synonyms:
   bring around, cure, mend

3. bring around, cure, healverb

   provide a cure for, make healthy again

   "The treatment cured the boy's acne"; "The quack pretended to heal patients but never managed to"

   Synonyms:
   bring around, cure, bring to, bring back, mend, bring round

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1. healverb

   Synonyms:
   cure, remedy, restore, make sound or whole

2. healverb

   Synonyms:
   reconcile, compose, settle, make up

3. healverb

   Synonyms:
   be cured, become sound

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1. healverb

   Synonyms:
   cure, repair, cicatrize

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1. List of paraphrases for "heal":

   cure, healing, fix, bandage, treat

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1. Shah Asad Rizvi:

   Remain close, don’t go far, hold hands and dance as the movements heal the scars

2. Harmony Allen:

   Going through the trial and having him get out made me feel worse than going through the actual rape, because I had to relive the rape and gruesome details to a court full of strangers, to put yourself through that and then have the military say,' that's great that that happened, but we're going to let him go free,' and just trying mentally to deal with that -- it's been impossible to heal from the rape. With him going back and with the country standing behind rape victims, I think this is going to bring healing to me and a lot of other victims.

3. Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake:

   I think we saw a lot more of what Baltimore is about, we saw people coming together to reclaim our city, to clean our city, and to help heal our city. I think this can be our defining moment.

4. Patricia Perkins:

   Morris Jeff is a strong school community and we will unite to help each other heal, every day, we teach our children to solve their differences with their words and to be compassionate toward each other. Our graduates will make a difference in this world because they learn to see each other as equal human beings. This resolve is only stronger after today's violence.

5. Karen Pence:

   In America, every life matters, and there's not tolerance for racism or violence in the streets of this country. And as The President has made clear, we will honor the memory of George Floyd. Justice will be served. We will have law and order in our streets and we will heal our land.